6 week old sebright cockerels inseparable, but hurting eqchother

[chickengeorgeto]

I have a very small flock with 2 hens, a suspected male guinea and a female guinea, and 2 sebright cockerels 6 weeks old, one of whom I believes to be female until a few weeks ago. I love my baby boys, they're so sweet and they can't stand to be more than a few feet apart but their play sparring has taken a turn recently, I have started noticing Knicks on their faces and my little Atilla had rings of little Knicks (like shaving cuts, not deep wounds ) around both eyes. Is that how roosters injure each other? The eyes? They are so small it's easy to separate them but they just cry and cry and try desperately to get to each other. Most of the time they are very sweet to one another, and the sparring still seems playful but I can't be sure. What can I do? It breaks my heart the way they cry for one another.

Your two Sebright cockreils are inseparable because as boys they are both afraid that one or the other of them is going to get more attention from your two hens than his adversarity receives.

You see, in this important respect Cockatiels are little different from teenage boys.

 

[Rainekitty]

My sebright mix rooster mates with his full size hens just fine. Sometimes it take a bit longer to get properly positioned, but the hens are patient and he is gentle with them.

 

[prepperchickens]

Your two Sebright cockreils are inseparable because as boys they are both afraid that one or the other of them is going to get more attention from your two hens than his adversarity receives.  

You see, in this important respect Cockatiels are little different from teenage boys.   

Lol the only attention they get from anyone but me is in the form of getting chased or pecked or my barred rock pullet straight cockfighting them for no reason except that she saw them looking happy and comfy all stretched out in the sun and it p*sses her off somehow. I can't tell you how often they will be peeping their happy chicken song grazing in the clover or nestled together under the tomato plant when out of nowhere Lydia comes running at them with her head lowered and stretched out straight like a little fluffy bull in full charge. She usually doesn't actually hurt them but she pecks at them just hard enough to make them scream for help and run in circles. She does this anytime they seem relaxed and happy (they are nervous little things by nature). I keep wonderin if she's jealous because due to them being sebrights and the people who say they are feeble and hard to raise to adulthood, I have always coddled them and treated them like they are made of glass. Maybe she just wants them to know she's the rooster. They do love my 6 week old guinea keet though, they may compete for him/her (still not positive but leaning toward female).